How to cram a PCMCIA WiFi card into your iBook

Z-COM XI-325 XI-330 XI-300 from http://www.zcomax.co.uk
and you don't have to do this crazy hack which is sticking out of your ibook... This PCMCIA card I can fit very well to my iBook G3 blueberry. You just have to replace the connector to MMCX-R.
I don't know how it is with support for this card on MacOSX though.. But I'm running linux it is not a problem since it is supported in kernel already.

I did the same thing with the very same card to fit it into an G3 iMac SL 350. It is too big for an iMac slot (with the appropriate adapter for Airport card), so not only had I to strip it down, but also I had to bend it a bit for fitting.
Works as a charm.

I would have just bought a USB Dongle...

"I wonder if this will work on a Pismo Powerbook?"

You don't need to on a Pismo-- it has the cardbus slot (PCMCIA)-- you can just plug in any of number of wifi cards that use the same chipset as Airport Extreme cards (I use a Buffalo), and the computer thinks you have an Airport Extreme card in it.

I wonder if this will work on a Pismo Powerbook?

Timmay

Why bother attempting it when you can just buy a Belkin USB adapter (works on usb 1 or usb 2 ports) and use that on an iBook (needs to run 10.3+). The info re drivers etc is available here http://www.symplification.com/node/209?from=10&comments_per_page=10

I like plug and play not strip down reweld and then pray!

but....Ithought apple cards had a DIFFERENT pin rrangement than the ordinary ones !?!

???

ciao

enrico

Pfft, call me when you've crammed an EV-DO card in that baby. =P

Actually, I'm quite tempted to try this at home if an 802.11g card could be similarly retrofitted. Otherwise there's no way to add 802.11g to an older iBook.